the participants

Ad Infinitum is a multi-award-winning, internationally acclaimed theatre company. Founded in 2007, we collaborate with marginalised communities and work with underrepresented artists to amplify unheard stories and voices, nurturing greater diversity in what stories are told, and by who, in contemporary theatre.

We have an 18-year track-record including:

• 22 industry awards
• Reaching an audience of 200,000+ (inter)nationally
• Supporting over 1,250 artists (UK & abroad)
• Touring to 25 countries including the USA, China, Mexico & Brazil
  Producing 14 critically acclaimed touring productions, highlights include: Extraordinary Wall [of Silence] (★★★★ Guardian), Bucket List (★★★★ The Stage), Beautiful Evil Things (★★★★★ The Scotsman) Ballad of the Burning Star (★★★★ Guardian) and Translunar Paradise (★★★★★ The Observer).

Flavia Bertram and Eleni Kyriacou are an artist and producer that collaborate on projects that bring arts, community and ritual in playful ways to create human connection. Recently, they collaborated on Ceremony of Self with other artists to explore how ritual and interdisciplinary arts practices can support women to explore the experiences of being a woman in a changing society.

As Executive Producer at BitterSuite, Eleni Kyriacou leads financial management and strategic development. Together they recently delivered Bodies Tilted at Southbank Centre's Meltdown Festival with Christine and the Queens. She previously delivered large-scale accessible events, including MOBILISE for Commonwealth Games 2022 (reaching 75,000+ audiences) and the production of The Flying Dutchman at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, which received royal recognition and engaged over 1,000 people from diverse communities. She led programming for Derby Festé 2021, attracting 50,000+ visitors through innovative cross-disciplinary work. Her expertise is in developing strategic partnerships, artist development programmes, and community engagement initiatives prioritising accessibility and inclusion.

Dante or Die (DoD) is an award winning, internationally recognised theatre company specialising in creating and touring unique site-specific performances. Its co-founders Daphna Attias and Terry O’Donovan are experts in their field. 

'There is immersive theatre and then there is theatre so immersive that re-entering the world afterwards comes as a shock because you did not realise it had taken you so deep into another reality' 
New York Times about User Not Found 

Our unique, up-close and intimate storytelling combined with applied theatre engagement activity ensures all our productions are created from a place of understanding and truly reflect the experience of those whose voices we aim to amplify. Since 2006 we have toured to over 90 venues and worked with more than 5,500 participants. Our work has been seen/viewed by over 115,000 public audiences through collaborations with world-class national and international arts organisations such as Brooklyn Academy of Music, GDIF, Almeida Theatre, Traverse Theatre, The Lowry, Wales Millennium Centre, Theatre Royal Haymarket and Battersea Arts Centre. Our live productions have won multiple awards including Best Book and Lyrics at the Black British Theatre Awards for Kiss Marry Kill. The production was also nominated for five OFFIE Awards 2025. The performance ensemble of Skin Hunger were awarded the OFFIES 2022 IDEA Performance award.  

During the pandemic we diversified our output and expanded our digital remit, developing technologies that broke the digital fourth wall. Partnering with the Guardian to present the User Not Found video podcast resulted in winning Scenesaver’s Digital Honour Award and being shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Europa Awards.

Odds On, our first interactive short film, transports audiences into the addictive world of online gambling. The project has won Digital Content Award at Arts Council England’s Digital Culture Awards, Best Interactive Film (International Media Festival of Wales), Best Experimental Short Film (Gully International Festival), and was shortlisted for Best Digital Project in The Stage Awards. In addition, the NHS’s National Problem Gambling Clinic is now showing the film to all their users as a tool to support their recovery - demonstrating the breadth of reach our productions have beyond the arts sector and the lasting impact of them. 

'Odds On is an exemplar of the way online theatre has developed in the past few years' 
the Guardian 

Second Hand Dance was founded by Rosie Heafford in 2013 and is now co-directed with Claire Summerfield. The company is female-led and run by disabled and non- disabled Co-Directors.

We create bold, accessible dance performances and digital dance films that subtly challenge the status quo and foster intimate, playful and shared experiences for children and their adults.

Our work is made with and for disabled and non-disabled audiences in an improvised, non-verbal, movement-based co-creation process alongside dancers, designers, filmmakers, animators, musicians and an expert panel of audience ambassadors that places the audience experience at its centre

In 2023 we became an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation. We advocate for 1) the development of the Performance for Young Audiences sector and 2) removing barriers for disabled audiences and artists to engage in high-quality dance performances. We sit on the Assitej UK Board, the Development Group for PYA England and the Barriers to Progression & Employment in Dance for Disabled People Research Steering Group.

SLAP Collective formed in September 2023 and we are based in Leeds. We make work which combines original music, mobile technology and live performance, with bright colours, noise and humour. We hand control of artworks directly to audiences because we believe that unique work comes from taking bold approaches to interactivity and audience collaboration.

Since our formation we have developed diverse projects, including mobile games, immersive installations, theatre pieces, and podcasts. The work we make exists at the intersection of contemporary performance, immersive experiences, and mobile technology.

Fabio Liberti is a Danish-based choreographer, graduated at Codarts in 2004 (NL). He has been part of dance companies in Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Denmark. Here he settled to give full time, energy and focus to the development of his own work.

Fabio creates in different creative context, as independent artist and in connection to established dance companies.

In 2020 he created his independent artistic association MUOVI in Copenhagen and received support for the creation of the works #ASIFILOOKEDLIKEME (2020), As if, I have missed myself (2021) and What did I just do? (2023).

He also created works in collaboration dance institutions such as Skånes Dansteater (SE), Norrdans (SE), Danish Dance Theatre (DK), Landerer&Company (DE), MIR Dance Company Gelsenkirchen (DE), Dark Circles Contemporary Dance (TX), Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (DE), Landesbühnen Sachsen (DE), EDGE Dance Company (EN) and Northern School of Contemporary Dance (EN).

His works have been performed at numerous venues and festival throughout Europe and received several international awards, such as first prize at RIDCC-Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition 2018 (NL).

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prfrm is a production co-operation founded in 2021, where a handful of freelance producers came together to secure independent artist, companies and institutions the necessary assistance in producing their work. We work with fundraising, PR, production- and stage-management, touring, sales and general strategising, amongst many other tasks.

Teater Fluks is a Danish theatre company based in the old industrial harbour area of Aarhus, where they run a laboratory space called Performance Atelier Fluks (PAF).

Established in 2011 by Sara Fink Søndergaard and Rasmus Skov, Teater Fluks produce original and intimate work. Driven by resonance, research and social sensibility they combine theatre, performance-art, installations and sound.

Rasmus Malling Lykke Skov is artistic co-director of Teater Fluks, performer, dramaturg and stage director, performing arts practitioner, educated as auteur at the Danish School of Performing Arts, and with an academic background in History of Ideas (BA) and Dramaturgy (MA).

Skov makes work for different arenas within the performing arts, primarily focused on personal perspectives, investigations, paradoxes, and the intersection between performance art, theatre and performance-installations.

Tiny Dancer is a theatre company dedicated to creating interactive dance and sensory performance experiences for children and young people.

We design poetic, movement-based performances where stories unfold without words, and audience become active participants in a shared journey.

Artistic Director Mette Møller Overgaard is a Danish choreographer, dancer and teacher based in Copenhagen. Mette graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2014 after studying dance at Iwanson International between 2006-2009.

Mette’s choreographic interests lie in site-specific, participatory and performative work with recurring themes of community and empathy. As the relationship between performer and audience is a central theme, the interactive room and audience involvement is paramount.

Mette’s work is research based and developing these ideas into an artistic collaboration with a participating audience, is a key aspect of Mette’s work.

Sheila de Val, M.Ed; PhD. has been a professional dancer and teacher in England, USA and Germany before settling in Denmark. In 2015 she retired from her position as Head of Dance and Participation at the Danish National School of Performing Arts and is currently a freelance researcher and teacher and member of the board of Tiny Dancer.